Introductions, and Such

Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'll get this started by providing some general background info. I'll try and keep it brief, since I can't see how it would actually be all that interesting.


My name is Erin Quillin, however I go by a couple of names. I'm mostly called Erin at work and at home,  Quills or Quillin by my friends, and Frenotx (Fren - Ox) everywhere online. I think of all my names, Frenotx is my favorite. Due to it's propensity for confusing people, though, I'm ok with most people just calling me Quills.

I was born on July 13, 1989 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. When I was quite young (before I can really remember), I moved to St. Petersburg, Fl. In the 6th grade, I moved to Brookfield, Wi. After one year of awesome, I moved back to muggy old St. Pete. (oddly enough, my new house had the same address as my old one, only it was 6 streets down.) I stayed there until I completed my sophomore year in high school, after which I moved to Roswell, Ga. I have stayed there since. (My god that was a lot of I's)

I graduated high school in 2007, and went to Georgia Tech for my college schoolin's. My first year went pretty well, but I soon found myself experiencing a crisis of motivation. Intellectually, I understood the importance of doing well in classes, but I still just couldn't bring myself to really put any effort into them. Sounds stupid, I know, but them's the breaks. Due to this (and a few other reasons), I opted to put my formal education on hold, and spend some time in the real world. Well, real enough anyway.

After a good amount of thought, I made the decision that I wanted to join the Navy. The Navy is something that I've considered doing for a long time. In fact, I was this close to going to the Naval Academy, instead of Georgia Tech. So upon realizing that I needed some serious head-straightening, enlisting seemed like a logical choice. I went through the lengthy process of signing up, only to get cock-blocked when I got to the physical exam. Overall, I was in very good condition. My eyesight, however, disqualified me from all of the jobs I had any interest in. The only way I'd be able to the stuff I wanted to do, was to get my eyes fixed. So I did, about 2 months ago.

The aforementioned eye work was rather expensive. In fact, the only way I was able to do it was through the use of my current employment's health plan. This plan allowed me to essentially take out a tax-free loan for use on all things medical. The catch is that the loan has to be payed off by the end of the year, and any money not utilized by that point is permanently lost. Since I spent the whole damn thing in one place, that means that I only have to worry about the second part. As it turns out, paying off a large loan in only a few months means that each payment is really big. Like, most of my paycheck big.

Which brigs us to the present. I am currently working in the lighting division of a large company, doing relamping. "Relamper" is essentially a fancy name for "Professional light bulb-changer". This means that I get sent to remote locations for three weeks at a time, and change out all of the lights at the establishment for new ones, whether they're bad or not. Instead of getting payed hourly, I get payed per lamp installed. I won't say the exact amount, but I will say that it's roughly the cost of a lime. Hence the title of this blog.

With that out of the way, I can get to the meat of this journal- the job. My current project has me relamping in what I'm confident is the San Antonio division of the Umbrella Corporation. Biohazards, radiation, and crazy sciency-shit are common in my work environment. My hours are 4pm to 4am, Monday through Thursday. Since this is the fourth week (first week of the second deployment) I've been out here, you guys are a bit behind on the saga, thus far.

Over the weekend, I'll post a summary to try and get everyone caught up. Keep in mind that this is not the planned regular format of this blog- once the introduction and summary are out of the way, I can start putting up normal-length posts that are actually (hopefully) interesting.